Funded Projects

The purpose of the project is to build on the European Forum’s experiences in advocating on behalf of LGBT Christian groups and to increase its capacity for conducting strategic, sustained advocacy work that integrates all aspects of the organizations’ work (including institutional development, coalition-building, counteracting fundamentalism, advocacy at the level of the European institutions). Planning and systematizing the advocacy work is ultimately intended to empower the European Forum to conduct more effective, more proactive advocacy in combating religious based homophobia.

“LGBT Christian Leadership Training” is to strengthen the capacity of LGBT Christian group leaders in Eastern Europe and Central Asia to structure and lead their groups in a successful and sustainable way while advocating for the human rights of LGBT people within a hostile social and religious environment full of conflicts.

The current project will increase the capacity of mobilization of the European Forum in the favor of the LGBT equality, as institutional consolidation of the European Forum as the main faith-based LGBT advocate in the region.

Within this project, the European Forum wants to resource LGBT and LGBT Faith non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and groups to monitor and combat religion-based intolerance in countries from Eastern Europe. Thereby, it works to tackle religion-based homophobia and related forms of intolerance in Europe.

The European Forum wants to publish a book collecting autobiographical European Roman-Catholic LGBTQ stories. We are looking for autobiographies highlighting both the gap between the orders of the official Roman Catholic Church and your own sexuality and arrangements you made with both sides.